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Potsdam has many charms. Warm winter weather for farming is not one of them. Clarkson physics student Daegan Gonyer came up with Controlled Environment High-Rise Farming. Today, produce grows in the middle of the Potsdam winter.

Costel Darie is a Clarkson biochemist and a fast-rising researcher in the molecular interactions of proteins. Bayard Clarkson, M.D., is one of the world's leading cancer experts. Together, they are collaborating on research with enormous potential.

Jake Morley is captain of the Clarkson men's ice hockey team. That would be enough at most universities. But Jake is an Innovation and Entrepreneurship major, whose favorite classes are Corporate Strategy and Project Management.

This is snowmobile country. But this is also Clarkson. So why shouldn't the snowmobile have very low or zero emissions, run on sustainable fuels or even electricity, and be designed by a team of students? No reason at all.

Supply chain management is not exciting. Unless you run a business. Then you beat a path to the door of Farzad Mahmoodi, who directs one of America's top programs in supply chain education and research.

Clarkson people know what matters. And something that really matters now is cyber security. Dr. Stephanie Schuckers is one of America's top experts in biometric computer security—the formula for proving and protecting electronic identity.

Matt Turcotte launched a web development firm in high school, and today he's growing his company while earning a Clarkson degree. The deal: Clarkson gets a piece of Matt's company in lieu of tuition, while Matt gets a powerful education.